Books that Matter: The City of God

Augustine of Hippo’s magnum opus The City of God is one of the greatest works of the Western intellectual tradition—so powerful, in fact, that one could argue all of Christian theology has been a series of footnotes to Augustine. Written during the transition from antiquity to the rise of Christianity, it is one of the key texts in defining our ethical framework into the 21st century. Yet even serious readers can be intimidated by a book that spans over 1,000 pages.

All Lectures:
1. Your Passport to The City of God
2. Who Was Augustine of Hippo?
3. The Sack of Rome, 410 A.D.
4. Augustine's Pagan and Christian Audience
5. The Problem of Suffering (Book 1)
6. The Price of Empire (Books 2–3)
7. Augustine's Political Vision (Book 4)
8. Splendid Vices and Happiness in Hope (Book 5)
9. Public Religion in Imperial Rome (Books 6–7)
10. Who or What Is God? (Books 8–9)
11. Sacrifice and Ritual (Book 10)
12. Augustine's Critique of Rome (Books 1–10)
13. Metaphysics of Creation and Evil (Book 11)
14. Fall of the Rebel Angels (Book 12)
15. Augustine and Original Sin (Book 13)
16. The Two Cities and the Two Loves (Book 14)
17. Augustine's Scriptural History (Books 15–17)
18. Translating the Imperium (Book 18)
19. Happiness and Politics (Book 19)
20. Judgments, Last and Otherwise (Book 20)
21. Augustine's Vision of Hell (Book 21)
22. Heaven: The Self Redeemed (Book 22)
23. The City of God as a Single Book
24. The City of God's Journey through History